Charters of the medieval hospitals of Bury St Edmunds
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Charters of the medieval hospitals of Bury St Edmunds
(Suffolk charters, 14)
Boydell Press : Suffolk Records Society, 1994
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
`Deserves a resounding welcome from medievalists.' EHR
This volume contains over 250 charters and other documents relating to four of the six hospitals established in medieval Bury. The core of the collection is the cartulary of St John's hospital, the domus Dei, but documentsrelating to the hospitals of St Nicholas, St Peter and St Saviour are also included. The charters relate mainly to the endowment of the hospitals by the abbot and convent, but there are also ordinances for the administration of the hospitals and for the establishment of chantries therein. The great majority of texts are presented in the form of a full English calendar, and there are English summaries of those printed in Latin. This is the first volume of the Suffolk Charter series to concentrate on Bury St Edmunds; it will be followed eventually by an edition of charters relating to the abbey's property in the borough.
CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILLis Principal Lecturer in History, St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, London.
Table of Contents
- Manuscripts used in this edition
- abbreviations
- introduction - the medieval hospitals of Bury St Edmunds, the manuscripts, editorial method
- appendices - wardens of St John's hospital ("domus Dei"), masters of the hospital of St Nicholas, priors or masters of St Peter's hospital, masters or hospitallers of St Saviour's hospital, chronological list of benefactors
- the charters - 1-105 St John's hospital, 106-121B hospital of St Nicholas, 122-164A St Peter's hospital, 165-255 St Saviour's hospital.
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